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Sterksel
Sign in to saveSterksel is a village in the southern Netherlands, near Eindhoven. It lies within the municipality Heeze-Leende. It's the smallest village of three in the municipality. The spoken language is "Heeze-en-Leendes", a distinct dialect within the East Brabantian dialect group, quite similar to colloquial Dutch.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in NL, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including Heeze-Leende and Populated places in North Brabant.
Its subject is documented across 8 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Heeze-Leende
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
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Sterksel is a village in the southern Netherlands, near Eindhoven. It lies within the municipality Heeze-Leende. It's the smallest village of three in the municipality. The spoken language is "Heeze-en-Leendes", a distinct dialect within the East Brabantian dialect group, quite similar to colloquial Dutch.
== History == The village was first mentioned between 1196 and 1198 as Sterkesele. The suffix means "single roomed house". The first part can either be sterk (strong) or sterke (young cow). Sterksel has been an agricultural community from the Middle Ages. Between 1798 until 1915, it was owned by the Pompen family.
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